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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  The people who start a story with "this black guy comes up to me and says...."  Those people are racist.  They may not specifically hate black people, but they are racist.[/quote]

No, they're telling you a story, and including some description.  If they say a child, they may clarify that the child was 5 instead of 15 (since that will give you a different mental image).

You're referring to white privilege and the default assumption that everyone is white unless you specify otherwise.  That's cultural, not racist.  (In other parts of the world, they have other defaults, unsurprisingly.)[/quote]

NP here.  Except that whiteness rarely gets described in these situations (when the teller is white).  It's someone who is black, or  Asian, etc.  Why is whiteness the default?  This is something that has always bugged me.  I remember reading the local paper in high school and wondering why it was pointed out if someone was black but not if they were white.  If you find it important to describe someone's race when telling story, make it everyone's race.

Signed,

A white person[/quote]

Wrong. I've heard two African Americans discuss a story and point out the race of the "white dude". Again stop projecting or thinking you know what all races are thinking. [/quote]

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